Album Rating: 4.5
Good review! I liked it even more. The songs are so short that the production doesn’t get much in the way IMO. Plus songs like Jade Green have little flourishes that distinguish them. One of my only minor complaints is she doesn’t need to dub her voice. The song Deeper Well is gorgeous and doesn’t need that.
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Album Rating: 3.6
"One of my only minor complaints is she doesn’t need to dub her voice."
I was actually thinking the same thing. The dubbing is a bit weird here, especially on the more stripped-down tracks
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Nowhere near as good as country Kacey
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Album Rating: 4.5
@Koris: Agreed about this leaning into a specific vibe a bit more than her previous works. That's not necessarily a bad thing though. This has grown on me every time I've listened to it.
@Winesburgohio: Why can't I place who SKM is...glad you found this enjoyable.
@theBoneyKing: You're definitely not alone in your hatred of Anime Eyes. I'm not a huge fan of the lyrics on that one, or the Disney like delivery of the crescendo, but I am impressed she had the guts to try it and would like to see more from wherever that came from.
@Dewinged: Cardinal is definitely good. Deeper Well, Too Good to be True, and The Architect are definitely my top 3 at the moment, though.
@mvdu: Yeah, I could see this growing to a 4.5. This type of music is my bread and butter and Kacey just happens to be one of my favorite vocalists. As far as the dubbed voice, I think it'd sound good without, but I certainly don't mind it the way it is. Just adds an extra sense of levitation and elegance to an already beautiful song.
@bigweinerdon: Debatable IMO. Of course nothing she's done has been as good as Golden Hour, which is country-pop Kacey. But I think the case for this being her second (or at worst third) best record is pretty easy to make, if not clear cut.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I’m pretty sure Wines means Sun Kil Moon. I can hear where that’s coming from.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Ah yeah, that makes too much sense.
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Album Rating: 2.5
this is one of the albums ever written
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Album Rating: 4.5
I think Heaven Is would have been a fantastic closer
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Best thing she did was the Frozen folky cover
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Album Rating: 3.0
Star crossed was way better. Will hopefully grow on me but not super keen
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Album Rating: 3.2
thread has me fucking stoked for anime eyes. it better be awful
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Album Rating: 4.5
Picture Musgraves singing a Disney princess monologue. That's what it evokes for me, at least. That's just the ending though, the rest of the song is fine as far as I'm concerned.
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Album Rating: 3.2
hahah okay yeah that bridge/outro is hilariously yikes, whole concept of the song is just not something that should've made it on the album probably
album is alright overall but could've been an excellent 6-track ep or smth, it's a little too one note to comprise 14 songs
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takeaway reading the comments is that there is a song called Anime Eyes
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Album Rating: 2.5
anime eyes is about u jesper
> I could see that for anyone who's not really into C&L styled pastoral folk (forget if you even are ftr, just noting). This feels like it's in the same space, albeit not as good.
high ceiling/indiscernibly forgettable floor 'style' for me. imo the 'space' C&L occupies has much more to do with its personal voice and narrative than its folk trappings, which is something this definitely falls short on. KM can be charismatic when she's in full head-over-heels gear (wrong album :[) and while her lyrics do ig flesh out a lazydays sphere of self-affirmation pretty coherently, they're indistinct and facile to the point that their impact is lost for me. the fact that the Architect is (rightly, unfortunately) singled out as being the most sophisticated thing here kinda says it all
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Album Rating: 4.5
100% agreed that C&L is better because of the personal narrative/voice. That atmosphere is truly haunting whereas this is more just "pleasant". It mostly struck a chord with me because of its themes about leaving behind waste-of-time habits in pursuit of what really matters, which is something I've been very much focusing on IRL (yet, I'm still here - zing). Agreed that the lyrics expressing those themes are often pedestrian compared to others who've executed this style.
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Album Rating: 3.2
"anime eyes is about u jesper"
ok this changes everything, soty
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Album Rating: 3.0
why on god's green earth are we talking about C&L here
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Album Rating: 4.5
Because the genre on both is acoustic pastoral folk?
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Album Rating: 3.0
I don’t see what’s pastoral about C&L at all. and Kacey’s contemporary leanings, even in a concerted effort to be more direct and stripped back really make that comparison a stretch imo
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